Extraordinary Tales

Extraordinary Tales

2015•1h 13m•6.5/10

HorrorAnimationMystery

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.5/10(128)

Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.

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Production

Melòn Digital, R&R Communications, The Big Farm, Melusine Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Tell-Tale Heart')

Julian Sands

Julian Sands

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar')

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Pit and the Pendulum')

Roger Corman

Roger Corman

Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')

Stephen Hughes

Stephen Hughes

Crow / Poe (voice)

Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke

Death (voice)

Karla Cervantes

Additional Voices

Raúl García

Raúl García

Additional Voices

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